PART I - Introduction
1. Why look at Causality in the Sciences?, Phyllis McKay Illari, Federica Russo, Jon Williamson
PART II - Health Sciences
2. Causality, Theories, and Medicine, R. Paul Thompson
3. Inferring Causation in Epidemiology: Mechanisms, Black Boxes, and Contrasts, Alex Broadbent
4. Causal Modeling, Mechanism, and Probability in Epidemiology, Harold Kinkaid
5. The IARC and Mechanistic Evidence, Bert Leuridan, Erik Weber
6. The Russo-Williamson Thesis and the Question of whether Smoking Causes Heart Disease, Donald Gillies
PART III - Psychology
7. Causal Thinking, David Lagnado
8. When and How Do People Reason about Unobserved Causes?, Benjamin Rottman, Woo-kyoung Ahn, Christian Luhmann
9. Counterfactual and Generative Accounts of Causal Attribution, Clare R Walsh, Steven A Sloman
10. The Autonomy of Psychology in the Age of Neuroscience, Ken Aizawa, Carl Gillet
11. Turing Machines and Causal Mechanisms in Cognitive Science, Otto Lappi, Anna-Mari Rusanen
12. Real Causes and Ideal Manipulations: Pearl's Theory of Causal Inference from the Point of View of Psychological Research Methods, Keith A. Markus
PART IV - Social Sciences
13. Causal Mechanisms in the Social Realm, Daniel Little
14. Getting Past Hume in the Philosophy of Social Science, Ruth Groff
15. Causal Explanation: Recursive Decompositions and Mechanisms, Michel Mouchart, Federica Russo
16. Counterfactuals and Causal Structure, Kevin D. Hoover
17. The Error Term and its Interpretation in Structural Models in Econometrics, Damien Fennell
18. A Comprehensive Causality Test Based on the Singular Spectrum Analysis, Hossein Hassani, Anatoly Zhigljavsky, Kerry Patterson, Abdol S. Soofi
PART V - Natural Sciences
19. Mechanism Schemas and the Relationship Between Biological Theories, Tudor M. Baetu
20. Chances and Causes in Evolutionary Biology: How Many Chances Become One Chance, Roberta L. Millstein
21. Drift and the Causes of Evolution, Sahotra Sarkar
22. In Defense of a Causal Requirement on Explanation, Garrett Pendergraft
23. Epistemological Issues Raised by Research on Climate Change, Paolo Vineis, Aneire Khan, Flavio D'Abramo
24. Explicating the Notion of 'Causation': the Role of the Extensive Quantities, Giovanni Boniolo, Rossella Faraldo, Antonio Saggion
25. Causal Completeness of Probability Theories-results and Open Problems, Miklos Redei, Balazs Gyenis
PART VI - Computer Science, Probability, and Statistics
26. Causality Workbench, Isabelle Guyon, C. Aliferis, G. Cooper, A. Elisseeff J.-P. Pellet, P. Spirtes, A. Statnikov
27. When are Graphical Models not Good Models, Jan Lemeire, Kris Steenhaut, Abdellah Touhafi
28. Why Making Bayesian Networks Objectively Bayesian Make Sense, Dawn E. Holmes
29. Probabilistic Measures of Causal Strength, Branden Fitelson, Christopher Hitchcock
30. A New Causal Power Theory, Kevin B Korb, Erik P. Nyberg, Lucas Hope
31. Multiple Testing of Causal Hypotheses, Samantha Kleinberg, Bud Mishra
32. Measuring Latent Causal Structure, Ricardo Silva
33. The Structural Theory of Causation, Judea Pearl
34. Defining and Identifying the Effect of Treatment on the Treated, Sara Geneletti, A. Philip Dawid
35. Predicting 'It Will Work for Us': (Way) Beyond Statistics, Nancy Cartwright
PART VII - Causality and Mechanisms
36. The Idea of Mechanism, Stathis Psillos
37. Singular and General Causal Relations: A Mechanist Perspective, Stuart Glennan
38. Mechanisms are Real and Local, Phyllis McKay Illari, Jon Williamson
39. Mechanistic Information and Causal Continuity, Jim Bogen, Peter Machamer
40. The Causal-Process-Model Theory of Mechanisms, Phil Dowe
41. Mechanisms in Dynamically Complex Systems, M. Kuhlmann
42. Third Time's a Charm: Causation, Science, and Wittgensteinian Pluralism, Julian Reiss
Index